Word: baptisme
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...reconciling message, and the creed calls upon Christians to work toward the elimination of all racial or ethnic discrimination, world conflict and poverty in the midst of abundance. The church is to prepare for its mission through use of Christ's gifts: preaching and teaching, praise and prayer, baptism and the Lord's Supper-the permanent "equipment" of Christianity that can be changed and modified according to need...
...Lancelotians' request for U.S. military aid. Also in the script: 2,000 "incidents," or problems, with which Krulak wanted his people encumbered, such as the pesky natives on the beach, a Lancelotian request for school textbooks, a native woman who wanted the Marines to arrange a baptism, scores of requests for food and medical aid, and a village chieftain who refused to deal with anyone less than the U.S. commander himself. That commander, General Hurst, had been given little notion beforehand of the devilish difficulties that Krulak...
...canon law decrees that babies should be christened within a fortnight of birth. Parents are prone to stretch the deadline a bit, but now the whole practice is under fire. Three vicars have resigned from the Church of England, announcing that they no longer believe in infant baptism. Three others, with covert support from dozens of Low Church vicars, have informed their bishops that they will baptize only believing adults...
...Infant baptism is a church custom that can be traced back at least to the second century. During the Reformation, radical Protestants on the Continent argued that baptism should be reserved for adult believers who consciously choose Christ-a practice followed by Baptists, Pentecostals, and Seventh-day Adventists, who all use total immersion. For Anglicans, infant baptism is a heritage of Catholicism, preserved because it is "most agreeable with the institution of Christ...
...current rebellion against baptizing children has both practical and scriptural motives. Many vicars are depressed by the number of nonchurchgoing laymen who want to see their child christened merely as a matter of form. Other clergymen have also been convinced by their scriptural studies that in apostolic times baptism was reserved for converted adults, and that Jesus' instruction-"Suffer little children . . . to come unto me"-implies only a naming-and-blessing ceremony...